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    Why does the title of this article emphasize that ‘truly impossible’ results were witnessed? Because providing an explanation for what happened here is literally impossible right now, despite the fact that it happened repeatedly.
     

    Extra ordinary human potential is something that has been studied for decades; and although a number of studies have been conducted which have yielded statistically significant results, there is still a harsh resistance by mainstream scientists to look at these topics.

    On the other hand, many distinguished scientists are also recognizing and accepting the importance and relevance of this type of phenomena. Material science is great, but it’s time to usher in the reality of non-material science, something Nikola Tesla said would advance humanity immensely, with progress increasing at an exponential rate.
     

    Quantum mechanics has questioned what we perceive to be the ‘material’ foundations of the world by showing that subatomic particles and atoms are not really solid objects, and has brought human consciousness into the equation.
     

    Many scientists, including a large majority of our pioneering scientists, have been emphasizing the importance of factors associated with consciousness (like measurement and observation) and the influence it has on our physical material world.


    “I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”  –  Max Planck, theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918
     

    These abilities have been demonstrated before under controlled conditions. One of the best known examples involves Ingo Swann who has his ‘remote viewing‘ abilities put under study. This effort began, supposedly, because the CIA had concerns about Soviet investigations into psychic phenomenon, as the United States had gathered intelligence showing that the Soviets were engaged in “psychotronic” research. You can read the publication as the results were published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration. (Puthoff, Harold E. 1996. CIA-Initiated Remote Viewing Program at Stanford Research Institute. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 10(1), 63-76.
     

    This is important to mention because human ability that defies the current known laws of physics has been an interest to various governments, especially western intelligence agencies.
     

    But, it’s not just western intelligence agencies who’s interests are piqued by this topic. China is also very active when it comes to identifying individuals with certain extended human capacities. For example, a paper published in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) in September 1981, in the journal Ziran Zazhi (Nature Journal) tilted “Some Experiments on the Transfer of Objects Performed by Unusual Abilities of the Human Body” (Shuhuang et al., 1981) reported that ‘gifted children’ were able to cause the teleportation of small physical objects from one place to another.

    There are also some extraordinary claims from a publication titled “Exceptional Functions of the Human Body.” This study reports of highly accurate parapsychological effects, including clairvoyance, psychokinetic effects, and more. (source)
     

    In a report published in 2010, by retired research chemist Dong Shen, an experiment is described involving mental teleportation of bits of paper out of a sealed plastic film container. What’s even more fascinating is that these methods were taught to others and the success rate was 40 percent.
     

    It’s also important to mention that what Dean Radin, the Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, states:

    Despite this fact, hundreds of elite, specially trained researchers from a number of scientific disciplines within China’s universities have studied unexplainable phenomena cultivated by this supposed unique group of people with ‘Exceptional Human Functions.’


    Evaluating the details and credibility of these studies have been difficult because many of the papers appear only in Chinese. The techniques have not yet been reported outside of China, and the experimental methods employed in conducting such tests do not appear to be as rigorously controlled as compared to typical Western methods

     

    “The results of the Chinese Teleportation experiments can simply be explained as a human consciousness phenomenon that somehow acts to move or rotate test specimens through a 4th spacial dimension, so that specimens are able to penetrate the solid walls/barriers of their containers without physically breaching them.”  – Eric Davis, Ph.D, FBIS (source)
     

    The Effects Of ‘QI Energy’ On Plant DNA & Cellular Growth

    A study published in the American Journal of Chinese Medicine, as seen in the the US National Library of Medicine, demonstrated that a women with special abilities was and is able to accelerate the germination of specific seeds for the purposes of developing a more robust seed stock.  As the study states:
     

    Pretty remarkable isn’t it? How does Sun do it? Apparently, she enters into a deep trance-like state, and from this place, she is able to advance the time required for sprouting dry seeds from their usual 3 to 4 days , to 20 minutes, generating a sprout growth of 3-4 inches. After a genetic analysis, scientists confirmed this to be the case, hence, the using of the word “rapid” in the title.


    Chulin Sun is a woman with exceptional powers (Shen and Sun, 1996, 1998; Sun, 1998). A member of the Chinese Somatic Science Research Institute, she is a practitioner of Waiqi. Waiqi is a type of qigong that teaches the practitioner to bring the qi energy of traditional Chinese medicine under the control of the mind. Chulin Sun can induce plant seeds to grow shoots and roots several cm long within 20 min using mentally projected qi energy (Fig. 1). This has been demonstrated on more than 180 different occasions at universities as well as science and research institutions in China (including Taiwan and Hong Kong) as well as other countries (e.g., Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, etc.) (Ge et al., 1998; Qin et al., 1998; Lee et al., 1999). We took part in and repeated the qi germination experiments seven times, and five of them succeeded (Ge et al., 1998). This remarkable effect on seed development has drawn widespread attention (Tompkins and Bird, 1973; Lee, 1998), but the biological mechanisms that underlie this phenomenon are unknown.(source)
     

    The abstract of the study also states,

    This was preliminary thought because video tapes from the recording of this experiment showed time distortion. It was also reported that near-by-clocks will show the full time of the experiment as it passes, despite the fact that, in some cases, the camera only showed 1 minute of film time.  It’s funny, because these time disturbances are also commonly reported with these types of practices in Chinese folklore.


    It was thought preliminarily that qi energy changed the structure of a germination-correlated gene site speeding up expression and advancing it in time.
     

    According to Danielle Graham, a founding editor and current Editor in-Chief of SuperConsciousness Magazine (also an American Institute of Physics experimental researchers) states that,
     

    The study of phenomena like this have been happening for years and will hopefully continue into the years to come. The mainstream opens up more and more when it comes to these topics and it’s only a matter of time before, like many previously unbelieved phenomena, will become much better understood and self evident.  http://www.collective-evolution.com/2016/07/01/scientists-witness-woman-with-exceptional-powers-of-mind-rapidly-grow-a-plant-from-a-seed/



    Those who study the physical effects of the EHF’s mind-matter interface often collaborate on their findings. The researchers agree they are observing repeatable, hyper-time-space-non-linear macro phenomena that violate the classical and relativistic models in which the nature of physical matter is currently understood

     

    It is commonly understood by these scientists that an EHF’s personal and individual evolution is directly linked to their individual skills; the greater their capacity to manipulate matter; the more spiritually evolved the EHF is considered to be


    http://www.collective-evolution.com/2016/07/01/scientists-witness-woman-with-exceptional-powers-of-mind-rapidly-grow-a-plant-from-a-seed/


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  2. Ludwig Klages is considered one of the intellectual founders of the modern environmental movement.  
     
    However, his views are far harsher and more radical than most modern environmentalists, particularly those in America. He saw modern society as a basically evil force in the world.  He saw Christianity as an enormous spiritual poison in the soul of the world.
     
    He warned of a terror to come if radical reforms were not made, not only in the physical world but in the world of the spirit.  For example, he believed that the natural landscape was an essential part of human identity. He claimed that thousands of years of folk traditions were rooted to the trees, wells, and springs of the Earth. What happens to this cultural identity when the landscape is destroyed? In his Man and Earth speech made in 1913, he explains that the roll call of the dead would far exceed the list of fallen animals. The destruction of the surrounding landscape had resulted in the death of a cultural identity. "Where is now the intricate richness of traditional costume, in which every folk could express its own nature, on its own landscape? (Klages, Man and Earth)."

     

    Klages was arguing that these ancient traditions are a core part of our being. Without nature or tradition, man becomes a source of global evil. 
     
    Klages was talking about a culture of life versus a culture of death. The ancient cultures tied to the land venerated and respected life. They understood that their own destiny was connected to the Earth. For example, if the Greeks wanted to construct a bridge, they would beg the river deity to pardon this deed and then offered a sacrificial libation of wine. In ancient German lands, it was an offense to shed the bark of a living tree. This offense was often matched by the shedding of the offender's blood. Yet in the Modern world, man sees these traditions as a childish superstition. "[Man] forgets that the interpreting of apparitions was a way of scattering blooms around the tree of an inner life, which shelters a deeper knowledge than all of science. (Klages, Man and Earth)."
     
    THE SPIRITUAL POISON OF CHRISTIANITY
     
    Klages believed that the destructive aspect of modern culture was rooted to the teachings of the Old Testament. "For the devout Christian, only man has a right to live (Klages, Man and Earth)." In the Abrahamic traditions, all of the Earth is created as a possession for mankind to own, "Then God said, 'Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.'” (Genesis 1:26).
     
    A millennium of Christianity in the Westernized World convinced man that he could use nature as he pleased without consideration for the consequences. Klages argued that the hostility towards images enforced in the Middle Ages helped sever the bond between man and the soul of the Earth. Therefore it is fitting that the industrial revolution emerged in the Christianized, Western World. It was here that the inventions were accumulated and the Scientific Method was developed to perfection. And it was in this world that the method of perpetual imperialism, the slaughter of non-Christian races and the conquest of the whole of nature began to take place. 
     
    Klages believed that Christianity resulted in a "terrifying megalomania" that allowed the bloodiest offenses against life to be permitted by God's chosen - even commanded! The Old Testament itself demanded the people of Israel to kill all non-believers in their path. "When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations...then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy." (Deuteronomy 7:1-2, NIV. 1). "Do not leave alive anything that breaths. Completely destroy them...as the Lord your God has commanded you..." (Deuteronomy 20:16, NIV. 1).
     
    Therefore it was fitting that the culmination of Christianity was the Industrial Revolution. Klages argued that the modernized, industrial world was not a departure from Christianity. It was an extension of the Christian World. Much like Christianity, the ideals of the industrial world permitted people to exterminate any life that got in the way of "progress." This attitude has resulted in a mass genocide of indigenous peoples, as well as non-human life. "From time immemorial, the 'love' of the Christian has never prevented him from persecuting religious pagans with a murderous hatred; and this same 'love' doesn’t prevent him even now from abolishing the sacred rituals of conquered tribal cultures." (Klages, Man and Earth). According to Klages, "Christian Love" was the love of only "God's Chosen" - to the expense of everything else.
     
    In addition to subverting and destroying the lives of the indigenous people around the world, the death toll of non-human life is unfathomable. Much nature was already disappearing in Klage's time. One was privileged to hear the call of the quail, even though these birds once numbered in the many thousands. The call of the quail lived in the songs of the common people as well as many Germanic Poets. Yet now this call, as well as the songs of many other species, was coming to an end.
     
    The Industrial period of history has presided over the greatest destruction of life seen since the Permian Extinction 250 million years ago. There is absolutely no way that this period can be considered a good period or even a productive one. This is a bloody time in history, that has an even bloodier price tag ahead. 
     
    THE TERROR TO COME
     
    Of course, the superficial errors in all of these systems, sects, and tendencies will not be with us for very much longer ~ Ludwig Klages
     
    We live in a world order that has strayed far from the natural order. We are like a spring that has been pulled all the way back. As a result, we will snap completely in the other direction. This civilization will be flung into a dissent of chaos. Klages foresaw disastrous results for this Modern Age mentality. In Klages's "Man and Earth" speech, he made predictions of impending doom. Perhaps this doom was a reference to the millions slaughtered in World War II. Or perhaps it was predicting an even greater massacre ahead, the results of the criminal destruction of life on the planet. Klages made the point that the preservation of nature is necessary for the survival of human life. In the wake of such great environmental destruction, one can predict a blood bath as the results of "progress."
     
    A brutal reassertion of primeval values will be a part of the revolt against the Christian, Industrial World Order. Part of living in "civilization" requires the civilized to suppress their natural and primitive desires, to banish these feelings to the subconscious mind. Yet Klages states as the current world falls apart, the masks of "civilized" society will fall off, and the brutal passions of suppressed desire will spring to the forefront. A burning frenzy will burst with flaming torch held high into the pandemonium, as if the inferno itself had been loosed upon the world (Klages, Man and Earth).
     
    Klages predicted that an ancient sun would shine through the destruction. From the death of the old world, a new one would emerge. Yet as civilization falls apart, the reorganization of what is to come after will not be a peaceful affair. Man thought he could correct the volatility of nature with the cold precision and logic of machinery. Yet industrialization has been responsible for destroying and poisoning many of the natural resources we depend upon as humans to live. When there is very little nature left to sustain life, people will realize that they need to respect the Earth in order to survive - just as our ancestors did. The Old Ways will return to wash away the Synthetic Values of the current world order. But only after the bloody transition period that Klages predicted. http://greenlinefront.blogspot.com.au/2016/07/ludwig-klages-spiritual-poison-of.html?m=1
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  3. Some Taoists were saying Taoism doesn't have an aim or make plans, I guess that is why Communists/ Internationalists were able to seize China?

    Most are encouraged to make no plans/aims, others have plans for 100s/ 1000s of years.

    Who is going to work in the factories otherwise?

    Workers of the world unite!

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    Because you know, people weren't happy living in self-sustaining communities close to family, friends, nature.  :P

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  4. Was this directed at me? "This idea that humanity stands alone as being destructive and bad, is basically a form of self loathing."

    I never blamed humanity, I am very much against self loathing, I did say "I lay blame entirely on the religions of Abraham.  Deserts on multiple levels seem to follow these religions."

    In order to solve problems we have to first see them, then act. This is basically my solution...

    Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu - chapter 80

    A small country has fewer people.
    Though there are machines that can work ten to a hundred times faster
         than man, they are not needed.
    The people take death seriously and do not travel far.
    Though they have boats and carriages, no on uses them.
    Though they have armor and weapons, no one displays them.
    Men return to the knotting of rope in place of writing.
    Their food is plain and good, their clothes fine but simple,
         their homes secure;
    They are happy in their ways.
    Though they live within sight of their neighbors,
    And crowing cocks and barking dogs are heard across the way,
    Yet they leave each other in peace while they grow old and die.


  5. Judaism/ Christianity is a significant cause of the neuroticism thelerner describes.

    neuroticism = anxiety, fear, moodiness, worry, envy, frustration, jealousy, and loneliness

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    Previously Pagan Europe was natural, healthy, strong, they celebrated the human form. See the many naked statues. It was graceful.

    Christians destroying Pagan art. Similar to radical Islam today?

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    Christians cutting down Pagan sacred trees. Humorous as ideas like, equality/ the brotherhood of man, tolerance, love your neighbor, resist not evil... (haha) have their roots in Christianity. It seems like they taught tolerance simply to give themselves space to infiltrate and destroy. You welcome them and they stab you in the back, we see this playing out in Europe now ha..

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    We go from oppressive Jewish/ Christian/ Islamic religions to extremely Liberal (something being free doesn't necessarily make it good, say the liberal/ without restraint consumption of alcohol, cigarettes, junk food etc) reactions. Neither are healthy.  I am not for black/ white/ grey, just what is healthy, natural.

     

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  6. In a groundbreaking study published in the journal Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry last year, evidence surfaced that glyphosate, the active ingredient in the Monsanto's patented herbicide Roundup, is flowing freely into the groundwater in areas where it is being applied.1 The researchers found that 41% of the 140 groundwater samples taken from Catalonia Spain, had levels beyond the limit of quantification – indicating that, despite the manufacturer's claims, glyphosate herbicide does not break down rapidly in the environment, and is accumulating there in concerning quantities.  http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/gmo-farming-poisoning-worlds-drinking-water

     

     

     

     


  7. Tolerance

    forbearance
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    toleration, sufferance, liberality, open-mindedness, lack of prejudice, lack of bias, broad-mindedness, liberalism

    are given as synonyms for "willingness to tolerate the existence of opinions or behaviour that one dislikes or disagrees with."

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    With taxation, if society didn't tolerate such behavior/ practices it wouldn't exist.
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    Reason

     

    the power of the mind to think, understand, and form judgements logically.
    "there is a close connection between reason and emotion"

    synonyms: rationality, logic, logical thought, scientific thinking, reasoning, thought, cognition;

    the mind, intellect, intelligence, intellectuality;
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  8. Corporate tax minimisation costs governments $US1 trillion says accounting insider

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-11/corporate-tax-minimisation-costs-governments-1-trillion/7587092

    This is what tolerance is mostly about, to make a global slave class. That architecture/ "modernist" residential building basically slave quarters, "emperor's new clothes", globalization, equality etc all corporate, buy and sell etc, cheap labor, maximize profits at the expense of humanity and environment. People fooled, here is your equality,

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  9. Men with beards are considered more masculine and better fathers. A display of health/ virility and maturity. Similar with long hair. Say a woman with long healthy hair is very attractive/ abundance of life energy. All this goes toward maintaining strong, vibrant, healthy offspring. I feel it has a balancing effecting on my energy. Apparently it helps protect the throat chakra in man?

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  10. I'm not convinced. Depending on your definition of nature, that is.

     

    But while I see a trend of capitalism and engineering as "unnatural", I must say, my car provides me with as much joy as it does suffering. So it's not all that bad XD

    Cars are just making people obese, cancerous and indebted. The other day I saw a morbidly obese man driving a luxury sports car, funny hm?


  11. From David Cooper's Convergence with Nature: A Daoist Perspective.......

     

    It is because Daoist self-cultivation is not focused on the 'inner' rather than the 'outer' that it requires an appropriate attunement and comportment towards the natural world. Engagements with nature help to secure the moral space – the arena in which to develop virtue – which Daoists hope to occupy. This is why the metaphor of Daoists as gardeners of the world – as cultivators of personal landscapes – is an apt one.

     

    While Daoists engage with natural environments, their engagement is also a retreat – not from an 'outer' to an 'inner' world, but from a frenzied world of activity and ambition to a quieter haven. From this haven, they have no illusions about 'saving the planet'. Like one distinguished nature writer, they eschew "plans for reorganisation and reconstruction". But, also like him, they will want to reduce somewhat the level of suffering where they encounter it and, more generally, to serve in small, local and undramatic ways to protect and enhance the natural environments with which they engage. In doing so, they live naturally or spontaneously, for their actions are not dictated by principles and plans, but are mindful and pliant responses to the situations and contexts they encounter.

    Seems more like an excuse to do little while the very air we breath becomes poison.

     

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    So Taoism is equal to Buddhism in it's apathy?

     

     


  12. "Nice attack: truck driver named as France mourns 84 killed in Bastille Day atrocity" https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2016/jul/14/nice-bastille-day-france-attack-promenade-des-anglais-vehicle

    Tolerance doesn't seem to be working out well for France.

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    Declining IQ in France http://drjamesthompson.blogspot.com.au/2015/12/the-puzzle-of-falling-french.html

    It takes intelligence to maintain a peaceful and prosperous society.

    "Dutton and Lynn report secular declines in Fullscale IQ evaluated using WAIS of four points a decade in France between the years 1999 and 2008–9. It is posited that the trend may have a partially biological cause, stemming from dysgenic fertility and, to a lesser extent, replacement migration. Given that these, and other biological phenomena are associated with the Jensen effect, it is expected that if they are the principal causes of the IQ decline then the secular change should also be associated with the Jensen effect. Furthermore if it can be demonstrated that the vectors of secular IQ decline, g loadings and the vectors of other biological indicators share variance, then the case for biological causation will be strengthened."

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    Tolerance is a mind virus used to erode civilization, to tolerate further degradation and abuses. Deconstructionism, moral relativity and at the same time critical theory (so they say nothing has any meaning and then tell you what is wrong about your culture ha)

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    A world losing beauty, dignity, grace, integrity, virility

    For what?

     

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  13. "None of those things separates us from nature." + "Theres no inherent morality in nature."

    If Man is an extension of Nature, Nature must be moral for Man has always pondered morality.

    Man only suffers when working against Nature, does that not indicate right and wrong?

    To be healthy and so strong and happy is surely a good thing?

     


  14. Nature protects itself. Nature will self correct, if that means it takes out that which throws off balance then it will. Man is nature, I do not see man as separate from nature. It may take time for nature to balance but it will follow the course of itself.

     

    An example would be "over population" of a species. If there is enough food for 100 creatures and there are 200 creatures balance will happen.

    Man was Nature,  now for the most part separated from it, and so suffers. "Humanitarianism" prevents this balancing, if 100 are starving they transport food from elsewhere, 100 becomes 1000 and that 1 million... then they start working on GMO crops to "feed the world" or something... misguided compassion? something more sinister?  Too many artificial systems, I am considering now 1 artificial system is 1 too many.

     

    Then everyone on the planet is shopping at Buy N large, they call it diversity, disease and unhappiness increases with the consumption of lifeless food. Man should be gaining nourishment from

     

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    Not

     

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    which turns the world into

     

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    and Man into

     

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    and they call it progress?

     

    Apparently my ancestors were barbarians and sun worshipers hm? With silly superstitions like sacred trees and rivers. Silly Pagans, they need Yahweh, Jesus and 10% tax to the Church/Government,

     

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  15. You just gave the "History of Modern Kung Fu" that my Sifu gave me, and I now give my students.

     

    Since I teach Tai Chi Quan, I also add how Tai Chi Quan got distorted coming over here. Basically, how the flower 

    children over here got a watered down version of TCQ in the late 60s, and the initial slow movements, and health

    benefits got emphasized, above any remaining martial aspects, which got further diluted in the 70s.

     

    So now people think that TCQ isn't a martial art, and is done slowly, which couldn't be further from the truth. I'm doing my part to change that.

     

    Nice job JinlianPai!  :D

     

    Cheers!

    Also the cause of the Ip man movies, to further promote Wushu?


  16. Weeds are said to be the commandos of the plant world, detoxifying/ replenishing the soil. I eat the dandelions in my backyard. I prefer the overgrown/ abundant myself, we really have strayed far from the natural. I lay blame entirely on the religions of Abraham.  Deserts on multiple levels seem to follow these religions.  

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